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Elementary and Secondary General Information System (ELSEGIS): Merged Federal File, School Year 1976-1977 (ICPSR 2242)

Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Education. National Center for Education Statistics

Summary:

The Merged Federal File contains school district-level data
from the following seven source files: (1) National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES). SURVEY OF SCHOOL SYSTEMS: ELSEGIS SCHOOL
DISTRICT UNIVERSE FOR SCHOOL YEAR 1976-1977, (2) Bureau of the
Census. CENSUS OF GOVERNMENT, F-33 -- SURVEY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
FINANCES, SCHOOL YEAR 1976-1977, (3) Office of Civil Rights
(OCR). ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL CIVIL RIGHTS SURVEY, FALL 1976,
(4) Office of Education. SEC 437 -- STATE... (more info)

The Merged Federal File contains school district-level data
from the following seven source files: (1) National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES). SURVEY OF SCHOOL SYSTEMS: ELSEGIS SCHOOL
DISTRICT UNIVERSE FOR SCHOOL YEAR 1976-1977, (2) Bureau of the
Census. CENSUS OF GOVERNMENT, F-33 -- SURVEY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT
FINANCES, SCHOOL YEAR 1976-1977, (3) Office of Civil Rights
(OCR). ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL CIVIL RIGHTS SURVEY, FALL 1976,
(4) Office of Education. SEC 437 -- STATE-ADMINISTERED PROGRAM FILE,
SCHOOL YEAR 1976-1977, (5) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
(EEOC). ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY STAFF SURVEY: EEO-5, FALL 1976, (6)
National Institute of Education (NIE). SPECIAL TABULATIONS OF CENSUS
DATA BY SCHOOL DISTRICT: 1970 CENSUS, 1973-1974 SCHOOL DISTRICT
BOUNDARIES, and (7) Killalea Associates. EQUALIZED PROPERTY VALUE FILE
(EPV), SCHOOL YEAR 1976-1977. The merged file was created by first
producing a master universe file containing a record for each valid
school district that appeared on either the F-33 or the School
District Universe source files. This master universe contains records
for 16,859 school districts.

Dataset(s)

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY GENERAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (ELSEGIS): MERGED FEDERAL FILE, SCHOOL YEAR 1976-1977. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement [producer], 1977. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02242.v1

Universe:
All public elementary and secondary education agencies in
the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and United States territories
(American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the
Marshall Islands) during 1976-1977.

Data Types:
census/enumeration data

Data Collection Notes:

The codebook and data collection instrument are
provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF
file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be
accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat
Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is
provided on the ICPSR Web site.

Methodology

Data Source:

data from seven source files

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: